Threat Protection Throughput with RSS on DEC750 and DEC850

[TommyTran732]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone has done any threat protection throughput benchmark on these 2 devices with RSS? I see that without RSS it's 1Gbps on the DEC750 and 2Gbps on the DEC850, so I am wondering if RSS makes any difference.

Thanks,
Tommy

[lilsense]

I have noticed a better overall performance with RSS on on my DEC850.

[TommyTran732]

What is the maximum throughput that you got with it?

[lilsense]

without RSS when fully loaded on my Gig internet, I was seeing 400Mbps Max. With the RSS on I am getting around 900+

[TommyTran732]

Wow, interesting. I did not expect it to be that big of a difference.

I am a bit confused though: 400Mbps is well under the advertised 2Gbps. Are you using like a lot of rules or something?

[lilsense]

I have suricata, Zenarmor , and CrowdSec as well as many rules. I am super impressed with DEC850. It's SOLID.

[TommyTran732]

Good to hear.

I bought the DEC750 last week. I just recently realized that I may have 10Gbps fiber in the not-so-distant future, so I am debating on whether to just return the DEC750 and buy a DEC850 or not.

[lilsense]

I use my 10G port connected to an internal switch.

[newsense]

I _really_ hope to see the next gen FWs from Deciso come with 2.5Gb NICs - the DEC4240/DEC4280 series are already using the new NICs - and more importantly I hope the DEC 700/800 series replacements will come with either coreboot or fwupd/LVFS

It is extremely disappointing having to choose between old/overpriced HW with some semblance of firmware updates when performance wise the small appliances from AliExpress/Amazon come with N5000/N6000/N100/N200 CPUs and at least 4x2.5Gb NICs and would be a far better option - but they won't ever have any firmware updates

[lilsense]

I care less for the 2.5 and all the odd numbers... I'd like to see the real network numbers. 1, 10, 100 and nothing else.
Decisio should make all the NIC's 10G with two 100G ports.

[newsense]

The 4000 series DECs will serve you well then.

For the SOHO ones like the 700-800 series a combo of 2.5Gb and 10Gb would be probably the best middle ground when cost, power, (passive) heat dissipation are concerned.